The U.S. Department of Justice opened a sweeping antitrust investigation of big technology companies and whether their online platforms have hurt competition, suppressed innovation or otherwise harmed consumers.
It comes as a growing number of lawmakers have called for stricter regulation of or even breaking up the big tech companies, which have come under intense scrutiny after a series of scandals that compromised users’ privacy.
Major tech companies already facing that congressional scrutiny declined to comment on the Justice Department’s investigation.Google directed requests for comments to the testimony its director of economic policy, Adam Cohen, made to the House Judiciary Committee last week. Cohen reiterated the company’s benefits to consumers.Apple referred to comments from Chief Executive Tim Cook, who told CBS last month he doesn’t think “anybody reasonable” would call Apple a monopoly.
Traditionally, antitrust regulators have sought only to block acquisitions involving large companies in adjacent markets. But Hovenkamp says U.S. antitrust law is broad enough for regulators to consider the potential damage wrought by relatively small deals too.that the Federal Trade Commission will allege that Facebook misled users about its privacy practices as part of an expected settlement of its 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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